The story of ‘The Most Dangerous Game’ revolves around General Zaroff’s untiring bizarre hunt for Rainsford. In this book by Richard Connell, the story plot includes three types of conflicts which are Rainsford vs nature (social), Rainsford vs himself (psychological) and Rainsford vs General Zaroff (physical) which were essential elements of this terrific short story. There were situations in this story where Rainsford confronted with him the conflict within himself which he had to struggle with for survival.
Rainsford went through an internal conflict when he was in the ocean and had to keep stay focused by not panicking and realizing that his clothes were not helping his strokes and he ‘wrestled out of his clothes’ otherwise he would have drowned. Another situation where Rainsford kept his composure was when Ivan had his gun pointed at him and he had to use his coolheaded approach or Ivan would have him dead. Also when General Zaroff told Rainsford regarding hunting men looking, Rainsford had to think over whether he should or should not attack General Zaroff. Rainsford faced another internal conflict when he was in the jungle for three days and he kept reminding himself ‘I will not lose my nerve. I will not’. Furthermore, Rainsford sought a tree as his hiding place when General Zaroff and had to struggle to keep himself noiseless and motionless.
All of his internal conflict management and prolific approach helped Rainsford to fight himself to keep going without getting much-needed rest and conquer himself and General Zaroff to survive and fight his enemy.
Works Cited
Connell, R. The Most Dangerous Game. Filiquarian Publishing, LLC, 2006.